Being in France in a business trip for one week, I arrived at Paris 08-June-2008 and after leaving my luggage in the hotel, I approached where my older son lives since his is making postgraduate studies here. Once we finished having lunch, we decided to see if we could visit N49 E2 located in Triel-Sur-Seine west of Paris, to make exercise and to set my organism to the new schedule and overcome the jetlag.

We took the RER (system from meter to the suburbs) line A direction Cergy-Le Haut. We dropped in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, to make connection with the train towards Nantes-la Jolie which pass by Triel-Sur-Seine, but we found out that the workers of that line of railroad were in strike, entertainment #1 in France (La grève). Given that, we could not continue with our plan so we left the visit of this confluence for Saturday 14 of June and then we went to Paris to enjoy a great promenade and to has dinner in the city.

Saturday 14-June-2008 we set off to the confluence and we took the RER again line A towards Cergy-Le Haut and at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine we connected with the suburban railroad system Transiline toward Nantes-la Jolie and dropped by Triel-Sur-Siene. Here I turned on my GPS and with the aid of MetroGuide Europe V9 map from Garmin, the GPS indicated that way to take, being the distance to arrived to the confluence of 2,3 km.

We initiated the long walk by avenue Des Combattants, later the Corrouge street and when arriving at Galande street we turned to the right and at the next interception we took to the left Des Bois street continuing the ascent. Soon in another streets interception, we took Des Bois way and in a short distance we entered Hautil Forrest. Continued towards north by Des Grosses Pierres trail and by Aux Vaches trail, but we perceived that this trail seemed to take to us far from our destiny so we decided to change our route and we took Des Petits Champs trail until we arrived at Des Beauregards trail where we turned to north (to the right). Later in an interception we turned right to Des Martilles until arriving at the interception with Aux Vaches trail and other 2 footpaths. Here we took Menucount trail which pass by right through the confluence.

At 5:50 p.m. we were making the Confluence Dance with much difficulty due to the dense vegetation of the forest that did not allow us to have of good and fast readings of the position with the GPS. The confluence is located at an elevation of 60,5 masl. We took the required pictures and started our return to the train station. This time we left the forest by Des Beauregards trail until arriving at Des Beauregards street, up to the interception with Des Bois street and from this point we returned by the routes that we had taken in our way to the confluence.

We returned to Paris to make some last purchases before my trip back home and to enjoy an exquisite dinner in the southwestern France style at Chez Papa with my son’s girlfriend.